Undoubtedly! I’d never have become such a perfectionist without translator training. Style and aesthetics also matter a great deal to me.ĭo you find that your translation work affects your own writing?
Speculative fiction gives me the stage and the weapons I need to confront things I find unjust or hard to understand. Real world issues do find their way into my writing, too. I like adventures and alternative histories as well as discovering meaning and humanity in strange circumstances. I want to create stories and worlds that will do that to people – set them free, let them think, make them see things they didn’t know they were capable of imagining. Not very original, I know, but reading his works was like discovering a missing piece of myself. Tell us a bit more about yourself and your writing – what first got you into speculative fiction?
In the first of our contributor interviews, we’re delighted to be joined by author and translator Suvi Kauppila, who tells us more about her work and about what’s going on in Finnish speculative fiction.
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